Neil Fein's Blog

I woke up this morning and the sukkah was still standing in the backyard, always a good sign. A small crowd of Habogerites came over yesterday and helped put the thing up. In order of arrival we had myself, Mary Ann, Craig O., Grazina, Martha, Jenn and Martin. Thanks, everyone!

The skeleton is made of PVC pipe, and Mary Ann & myself did most of the work of fitting that together, with Craig and Grazina showing up for the end of that, just in time to figure out how to stabilize the thing.

The sides are yellow canvas — two of them, anyway. They're canvas drop cloths, and pretty sturdy. Mary Ann, our newly minted Jew, was the "Mohel" cutting lengths of string for Craig and myself to lash the canvas to the top pipe, sorta like a shower curtain. We still need to cover a third side; Martha's going to get a plastic drop cloth or something of that sort today. (Those canvas drop cloths are expensive; not counting whatever Les and Judith paid for the roof, we spend more on drop cloths than on the sukkah.)

The roof that the Turners got us fits the sukkah — barely. The roof is 10 feet long, and the sukkah ended up being something like 10 feet 6 inches long with pipe elbows, tees and such. It looks like a more or less solid roof with lights on, but it looks beautiful with the lights off Ᾱ the sky is visible as a series of small parallel lines in between the bamboo.

The whole thing is a little bigger than last year. I think we have enough room to keep a small table in there and have several chairs as well.